According to investigators, the unemployed Briton planned to kidnap the serviceman and then behead him “like a pig” with the help of five other persons.

The prosecuting attorney, Nigel Rumfitt, told the jury that Parviz Khan intended to employ drug dealers to kidnap a soldier and film his beheading to post on the Internet, The Daily Telegraph said Tuesday.

Rumfitt said six suspects, including Khan, planned to take the soldier to a garage, adding that "there he would be murdered by having his head cut off like a pig."

Khan, the alleged ringleader, and several others pleaded guilty to charges surrounding the plot in early January.

The details regarding Khan emerged Tuesday because the jury had yet to be sworn in for cases suspects involving others in the plot.

Officials also charged two of the suspects in the case with intent to equip terrorists in Pakistan. The prosecutor said both men helped Khan send equipment to extremists in Pakistan. The goods were reportedly shipped in 2005 and 2006, as aid for earthquake victims.

The prosecution described Khan as “a man who has the most violent and extreme views” and said he was at the centre of a terrorist “cell.”

“He was enraged by the idea that there were Muslim soldiers in the British army, some of them Muslims from The Gambia in west Africa,” Rumfitt told the court.